The Lifeboat

The Lifeboat

Commissioned by Clare Gormley for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and edited by Stephen Connolly, The World Was All Before Them features new work by seven writers: Simon Costello, Dane Holt, Miriam Gamble, Michael Magee, Padraig Regan, Trenna Sharpe and Sacha White.

The Lifeboat Press is an independent publisher of poetry and non-fiction based in Belfast. Their recent publications include Sure Thing by Paul Muldoon, Oh! by Susannah Dickey and Queering the Green: post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry, edited by Paul Maddern.

For TULCA, they have produced a short book of new writing by Simon Costello, Miriam Gamble, Dane Holt, Michael Magee, Padraig Regan and Sacha White.

Simon Costello’s poems have appeared in The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland Review. He was featured in Queering the Green and lives in County Offaly.

Miriam Gamble’s most recent book of poems, What Planet, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2019. She lives in Edinburgh, where she teaches at Edinburgh University. The Lifeboat Press will publish a book of her essays in 2023.

Dane Holt is currently completing a PhD at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. His poems have appeared in The White Review, Poetry Ireland Review and bath magg.

Michael Magee’s first novel, Close to Home, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in April 2023.

Padraig Regan’s first collection of poems, Some Integrity, was published by Carcanet in 2022. The Lifeboat Press has published two pamphlets of their poetry and non-fiction: Delicious and The Sensual City.

Sacha White’s poems have appeared in The Honest Ulsterman and Queering the Green. She is a contributing editor for The Tangerine.

Contents:

Introduction by Stephen Connolly
By The Lagan by Trenna Sharpe
Mostly Full Coverage, an illustrated essay by Michael Magee
Six Poems by Dane Holt
Mushroom Poems by Simon Costello
Of The Suburbs, an essay by Miriam Gamble
Echo: An Erasure by Padraig Regan
A Poem in Eight Parts by Sacha White

Published by The Lifeboat Press
112 pages, paperback
ISBN: 9781916222878

Available from www.tulca.ie/shop